Milking dairy cattle · Minnesota

High Island Dairy

Le Sueur, MN · ~31 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
2.0
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

High Island Dairy runs at 44% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Milking dairy cattle workplace, earning a grade A.

High Island Dairy: 2.0 TCR = 44% of Milking dairy cattle BLS 4.5 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

High Island Dairy safety composite

High Island Dairy scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 87% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 51%), blended into one 0-100 breakdown against same-industry peers. A missing measure drops out and redistributes its weight rather than deflating the score. This is a per-dimension breakdown, distinct from the single letter grade above it (which weights TCR alone against the BLS industry benchmark).

B

76/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 1.96 per 100 workers

Safer than 83% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 87% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 51% of industry peers

Benchmarked live against every credibly-rated employer in the same NAICS industry code in the current OSHA extract (a segment must have at least 8 rated peers to benchmark). Not a legal or compliance determination; PlainSafetyScore's own weighting (TCR 40%, DART 35%, fatalities 25%).

TCR Δ

−4.4

2018→2024

High Island Dairy injury rate improved

High Island Dairy's TCR fell 4.4 from 4.4 in 2018 to 0.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2019 at 6.8 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2018=4.4 · 2019=6.8 · 2020=0.0 · 2021=0.0 · 2022=0.0 · 2023=2.5 · 2024=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 112120 · Le Sueur, MN AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade A · TCR 2.0 · 44% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #14/28
  • PHOTO Aurora - Oakwood Dai…
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 5 inj
  • SIZE ~31 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Aurora - Oakwood Dairy, LLC (0.0 TCR gap)

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High Island Dairy in the TCR neighbourhood

Average Total Case Rate among this establishment and nearest same-industry peers

TCR

What this shows High Island Dairy averages 2.0 TCR (44% of the Milking dairy cattle BLS benchmark).

Source U.S. Department of Labor, OSHA Injury Tracking Application (Form 300A) As of 2026-08-25

High Island Dairy TCR series: 2018=4.4 · 2019=6.8 · 2020=0 · 2021=0 · 2022=0 · 2023=2.5 · 2024=0 · BLS 4.5

Where High Island Dairy falls in its industry

530 Milking dairy cattle establishments

Safer than 83% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 6.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Minnesota alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #14 safest of 28 Milking dairy cattle employers in Minnesota.

High Island Dairy (31 employees, TCR 2.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 37 employees and a TCR of 6.0 2×2 strategic matrix plotting 30 entities by Average employees (X) and Total Case Rate (Y), with a crosshair dividing the plot into four quadrants. Larger & higher-riskSmaller & higher-riskLarger & saferSmaller & safer than peers 0100200300400 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate High Island Dairy
High Island Dairy (31 employees, TCR 2.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 37 employees and a TCR of 6.0

High Island Dairy has fewer employees than the Milking dairy cattle median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 6.0. Workforce size and injury rate do not always move together within the same industry -- some of its smaller peers run higher rates than its larger ones, and vice versa.

Year-by-Year Safety Data

Year TCR DART Injuries Illnesses Fatalities
2024 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2023 2.5 0.0 1 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 6.8 4.5 2 1 0
2018 4.4 2.2 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

112120 · MN · Le Sueur

530 Milking dairy cattle employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 15,828 rated employers in Minnesota with headcount on file · 15 employers in Le Sueur, MN · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers · 4 cross-state NAT-SIZE peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel Establishment Metric
NAICS-TCR Aurora - Oakwood Dairy, LLC 2.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Oak Basin Dairy 1.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Hermana Dairy, LLC 2.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Sunnyside Farms, Inc. 1.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Protein Sources, LLP 31 FTE
STATE-SIZE Black Dog Gen Plant-UC 31 FTE
STATE-SIZE Power Plant 31 FTE
STATE-SIZE 58 Lake Superior Place 31 FTE
CITY-NEAR Cambria Plant 548 FTE
CITY-NEAR Le Sueur 382 FTE
CITY-NEAR Agropur Inc. - Le Sueur Cheese 172 FTE
CITY-NEAR Agropur-Le Sueur Cheese Company 171 FTE
NAT-TCR BJC Behavioral Health - Central Division 2.0 TCR
NAT-TCR RTI Extrusions Inc 2.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Icon Custom Construction Services, Inc. 2.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Hart Ranch Development Company 2.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE GTM Discount Store Chula Vista 31 FTE
NAT-SIZE The Plumbing Source 31 FTE
NAT-SIZE Highland 31 FTE
NAT-SIZE American Fence Company of Lincoln, Inc 31 FTE

Rel codes: NAICS-TCR · STATE-SIZE · CITY-NEAR · NAT-TCR/NAT-SIZE cross-state. Read with this employer →

Data Source: OSHA Injury Tracking Application (ITA), mandatory establishment-level injury/illness reports. Grades compare employer Total Case Rate (TCR) to BLS IIF industry benchmarks. Data covers years reported by this establishment: 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.